COMMENTARIES ESSAY ROUGH DRAFT
Today I am writing essay over our Unit 4 Rhetorical Analyses class discussion. The topic was,”How do family members or friends try to persuade you? In what ways do your friends or family members persuasive strategies differ from the ways advertisers try to persuade people?” There are numerous ways to try to persuade someone, but for me, my family, and friends they try to persuade me through the use of pathos and ethos. Advertisers typically use techniques like scare tactics or promising the buyer happiness in order to persuade you to buy their product. In this article I will compare the differences between advertisers and family and friends persuasive strategies.
Family members or friends are usually the people that we share the most important relationships and or the closest relationships with. In my research I found ten techniques that family members and friends use to persuade their counterparts. The ten
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“The craft of advertising itself is hundreds of years old, but it has certainly become more of a science in the last 50-60 years, with creativity and methodology working hand in hand to sell you hard.”(Suggett,Paul) In my research I found 10 creative ways that advertisers use in order to persuade their audience to purchase their products. The techniques are as follows using “scare tactics, promising happiness, attacking your social standing, limiting availability, trying to become your friend, creating positive associations, making you laugh, humanizing things and animals, using reverse psychology, and lastly using sex and proactive imagery.”(Suggett, Paul) My person experiences with advertisers has resulted in them using limited availability on a widely sought for product, and by them promising satisfaction and or happiness through the use of their products. Ways that my counterparts and advertisers persuasive techniques differ are almost
Today, one can see the tactic of persuasion being used as a standard avenue to influence a person’s attitude or beliefs by presenting them with different messages that encourage things like using certain brand name products, vote a certain way, or where to take a vacation just to name a few. There are four types of people that include gullible people, skeptical people, firm believers, and people who are leaders who trust others as well as make others follow their ideas. Persuasion is a widespread topic of social psychology and may be done in different ways. There are two types of cognitive processes by which to persuade someone, which are the central route or the peripheral route. For this assignment I used mostly the central route approach as well as using a little of the peripheral route approach. To reinforce the peripheral route approach the use of pathos was also used during the video to play on the emotions of the watcher. This PowerPoint is effective at using the central route of persuasion, peripheral
Most people, don’t stop and think how advertisers persuade you to buy their product. After reading Advertising’s 15 Basic Appeals, by Jib Fowles. I’ve learned that advertisers use one or more appeals in their ads, it can be used positively or negatively. While observing the tridents gum ad, it was obvious that the ad contained the need for sex, personification, and affiliation.
In Jib Fowles article, “Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals”, he shows us fifteen ways commercials try to appeal to people around our country. The need for sex, need for affiliation, the need to nurture, need to aggress, need to achieve, need to dominate, need for prominence, need for attention, need for autonomy, need to escape, need for aesthetic sensations, need to satisfy curiosity, and physiological needs. These needs are all how companies appeal to our needs to interest us into buying their product. These appeals can be seen in almost every
Advertising is all around us. Companies of all sorts rely heavily on internet, television, print, and various other types of media outlets as means to reach their audience. Advertising aims to bring in more customers and thereby, more profit. All of this is complicated by the fact that, out of the vast number of products and services available, companies want to prove that theirs are the best. From this is born the tricky and unique language of advertising. In their respective articles, With These Words, I Can Sell You Anything and The Language of Advertising, both William Lutz and Charles A. O’Neill discuss popular ploys used by marketing advertisers to rope in the most customers. Lutz takes a
Do you ever watch the Super Bowl for its commercials? Have you ever bought a more expensive product because you had seen its advertisement? If the answer is yes, then you might have been a victim of today’s marketers. Jean Kilbourne, the author of “Killing us Softly” stated in one of her lectures, “The influence of advertising is quick, cumulative and for the most part, subconscious, ads sell more products.” “Advertising has become much more widespread, powerful, and sophisticated.” According to Jean Kilbourne, “babies at six months can recognize corporate logos, and that is the age at which marketers are now starting to target our children.” Jean Kilbourne is a woman who grew up in the 1950s and worked in the media field in the 1960s. This paper will explain the methods used by marketers in today’s advertising. An advertisement contains one or more elements of aesthetics, humor, and sexual nature.
Coming from commercials, newspapers, movies, and magazines, advertisements are one of the most prominent things that we get bombarded with on a daily basis. The problem with a lot of people including myself is that we fall victim to the manipulation of the advertising sharks and their devious tricks. In the article ‘Advertising’s 15 Basic Appeals’ by Jib Fowles, the author describes how advertisers will use 15 basic emotional appeals in order to get you to say ‘I want and need that!’ In National Geographic, a historical, anthropological, discovery-based magazine, advertisers focus their energy on the middle-aged, middle-class, educated audience, who want to improve not only their intellectual integrity, but also improve their families lives if the readers can help it. National Geographic advertisers can do this by appealing to the readers’ basic needs for achievement, nurture, and guidance.
Advertisements and commercials seen on TV are crafted to make people feel recognized and potentially promote the advertised product. When you watch an advertisement and feel as though it is speaking directly to you, this represents a persuasive appeal. For example, flu shot advertisements are created to make you or your family want to get one advertisement using persuasive techniques like bandwagon, association, flattery, or universal appeal. The advertisement “The Flu Ends with U” uses three persuasive techniques, “no flu in my house” is targeted to a specific audience, and “shots aren't just for kids” is also a good persuasive technique targeted to adults. this essay, explains each of these advertisements.
Persuasion is a part of our everyday lives. Whether we are persuading our mother, using persuasion through speech, or threw advertisements, we are using rhetoric strategies to get the response we desire. With the help of minor details in many advertisements, Ethos, Logos, and Pathos are a way of persuading the audience to buy or think a certain way. A Colgate toothbrush commercial used Logos, Pathos and Ethos to spread the word that they have the best toothbrush of all, in which they target everyone who has teeth. Through the use of advertisements, Colgate has convinced the world that they have the best toothbrushes, they’re even recommended by dentists.
Advertising is a form of communication used to encourage or persuade an audience to continue or take some new action. But when advertisers produce an ad, they have many different variables that come into play if they want to successfully persuade consumers. The first most important step they have to figure out is, what type of audience they are trying to target. They then create images and intend to appeal specifically to the values, hopes, and desires of that particular audience. This is why someone would rather pick the well-known Malboro cowboy ads over the new female cigarettes of Virginia Slims. Each of these ads targets a specific audience;
Advertisements are everywhere. From billboards, to magazines, to newspapers, flyers and TV commercials, chances are that you won’t go a day without observing some sort of ad. In most cases, companies use these ads as persuasive tools, deploying rhetorical appeals—logos, pathos, and ethos—to move their audiences to think or act in a certain way. The two magazine ads featured here, both endorsing Pedigree products, serve as excellent examples of how these modes of persuasion are strategically used.
Over the last few decades, American culture has been forever changed by the huge amount of advertisement the people are subjected to. Advertising has become such an integral part of society, many people will choose whether or not they want to buy a product based only on their familiarity with it rather than the product’s price or effectiveness. Do to that fact, companies must provide the very best and most convincing advertisements as possible. Those companies have, in fact, done
Many businesses and organization use the method of advertisement to sell their products. Ads enhance products and encourage the audience to buy its products. There are many strategies in which influence how successful an ad can sell its product. In this essay, I will be conducting a rhetoric analysis on a chip advertisement created by Popchips. This essay should identify the audience the ad is trying to reach; the message the ad delivers; and the three modes of persuasion (ethos, logos, and pathos) that are used in this ad. For reference, this ad can be found at the end of this essay.
In order to attract a specific demographic, advertisement companies employ diverse methods of persuasion. Corporations such as Wendy’s hire advertisement agencies for their expertise in how to attract target audiences to their products. Wendy’s advertisement campaign for ‘Where’s the Beef?’ integrates a few different methods of persuasion; credibility, similarity with the target, and likeability. Wendy’s is trying to entice the 16-40 age demographic of Americans. By incorporating these methods of persuasion to attract the aforementioned target age demographic, Wendy’s is anticipating to attract new customers, consequently increasing profitability.
The misinterpretation of an ineffective conveyed message may arouse the listener’s appeal and transport reduction for openness and understanding. The persuasion of argument may lead to a misunderstanding of an intended message. Having both individuals trying to convince the other individual to respect and see their point of view. Therefore a person’s character to demonstrate or model negative behaviors and attitudes. In addition initiating conflict or an argument impacting their surroundings and family members will have an a negative effect and resistance as a response or result.
“Advertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a great increase. Not the power to brainwash overnight, but the power to create subtle and